Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...into deep trouble. Kibitzer Walter Hagen, along for the walk, advised Bobby: "Take your time at the top of your swing, as you did when you wrecked me and Gene Sarazen. . . . Get lazy again." Jones did, and played the last seven holes in even par. Next day, Bobby edged Byron one stroke with a 72-his best competitive round in a dozen years. But his final score for 72 holes: 302. He finished in 32nd place...
...Byron at 45. Thirteen years before Dickens' death he became obsessed by the belief that at 45 he was "capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant...
...Byron Mills Bennett...
...crowds had come to see the Byron Nelsons, the Sam Sneads, the Ben Hogans. Of the other 130 hopefuls entered in the $10,000 St. Petersburg Open Tournament, only 20 had much chance to finish in the money. The rest had a cheerful name for themselves: the dew sweepers...